Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Steven Rostedt
2005-12-06T00:55:17Z

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 05 December 2005 15:21, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Perhaps, we could start out having Greg and Chris just concentrate on
> > every fifth branch instead of every one, and that way the stability will
> > last much longer.
>
> Ah, belling the cat.

:)

>
> Hint: Any plan in a volunteer community that starts with "$BUSY_PEOPLE should
> do $THIS" fails. Any plan that starts with "I could do $THIS" at least has a
> chance.

Actually, they are already maintaining 2.6.x.y, (x => 11, 12, ...) I was
trying to get them to only maintain 2.6.x.y (x => 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 25, ...)

So maybe it would actually be easier. But I'm sure they wouldn't be
fooled, since the longer you maintain a fork, the harder it becomes.

I was just making a suggestion, so that if someone else thought it was a
good idea, they could do it. I personally don't need such a beast, since
I would just stay with the latest 2.6.x anyway. Since I have that luxury.

>
> This is not limited to open source, by the way...

Yep, I know that.

-- Steve